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A Son at the Front
'The war went on; life went on; Paris went on.' In A Son at the Front, her only novel dealing with World War I, Edith Wharton offers a vivid portrait of American expatriate life in Paris, as well as a gripping portrayal of a complex modern family. The...
A Son at the Front
Inspired by her volunteer work in France during World War I, Edith Wharton's remarkable war novel, A Son at the Front, was initially met with widespread indifference from a war-weary public. The profoundly moving story follows expatriate American painter John Campton as...
A Son at the Front
"Wharton has done nothing that equals this."―New York Times Book Review (1923) "Extraordinarily poignant...Heartrending, tragic, powerful, this is not to be missed."-Publishers Weekly Edith Wharton's A Son at the Front (1923) is a stirring rumination...
A Son at the Front
A Son at the Front is Edith Wharton's extremely personal novel about love, loss, and the intersection of war and art. It's a powerful, moving portrait of empathy and loss. One of Wharton's very best novels.
." . . A Son at the Front is an extraordinarily poignant...
A Son at the Front
A Son at the Front is Edith Wharton's extremely personal novel about love, loss, and the intersection of war and art. It's a powerful, moving portrait of empathy and loss. One of Wharton's very best novels.
." . . A Son at the Front is an extraordinarily poignant...
A Son at the Front
Wharton's antiwar masterpiece, now once again available, probes the devastation of World War I on the home front. Interweaving her own experiences of the Great War with themes of parental and filial love, art and self-sacrifice, national loyalties and class privilege, Wharton...
A Son At the Front
Inspired by a young man Edith Wharton met during her war relief work in France, A Son at the Front (1923) opens in Paris on July 30, 1914, as Europe totters on the brink of war. Expatriate American painter John Campton, whose only son George, having been born in Paris, must report...
A Son at the Front (Presumed First, 1923)
A Son at the Front: Large Print
Campton looked at this date with a gaze of unmixed satisfaction. His son, his only boy, who was coming from America, must have landed in England that morning, and after a brief halt in London would join him the next evening in Paris. To bring the moment nearer, Campton, smiling...
A Son at the Front
Campton looked at this date with a gaze of unmixed satisfaction. His son, his only boy, who was coming from America, must have landed in England that morning, and after a brief halt in London would join him the next evening in Paris. To bring the moment nearer, Campton, smiling...
A Son at the Front: Original Text
Campton looked at this date with a gaze of unmixed satisfaction. His son, his only boy, who was coming from America, must have landed in England that morning, and after a brief halt in London would join him the next evening in Paris. To bring the moment nearer, Campton, smiling...
A Son at the Front: Original Text
A number of visitors had passed through the studio that day. After years of obscurity Campton had been projected into the light-or perhaps only into the limelight-by his portrait of his son George, exhibited three years earlier at the spring show of the French Society of Painters...
A Son at the Front
A number of visitors had passed through the studio that day. After years of obscurity Campton had been projected into the light-or perhaps only into the limelight-by his portrait of his son George, exhibited three years earlier at the spring show of the French Society of Painters...
A Son at the Front: Large Print
A number of visitors had passed through the studio that day. After years of obscurity Campton had been projected into the light-or perhaps only into the limelight-by his portrait of his son George, exhibited three years earlier at the spring show of the French Society of Painters...
A Son at the Front
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A Son at the Front
"Wharton has done nothing that equals this."―New York Times Book Review (1923) "Extraordinarily poignant...Heartrending, tragic, powerful, this is not to be missed."-Publishers Weekly Edith Wharton's A Son at the Front (1923) is a stirring rumination...
A SON AT THE FRONT 1st Printing
A Son At The Front
In the summer of 1914, John Campton, divorced American painter who lives in Paris, is expecting the arrival of his son George and plans to spend a month traveling with him. However, the war breaks out in Europe and they must cancel their vacation, but the bigger problem for them...
A SON AT THE FRONT by EDITH WHARTON SCRIBNERS 1...
A Son at the Front
John Campton, the American portrait-painter, stood in his bare studio in Montmartre at the end of a summer afternoon contemplating a battered calendar that hung against the wall.The calendar marked July 30, 1914.Campton looked at this date with a gaze of unmixed satisfaction...
A Son at the Front
Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the...
A Son at the Front: Large Print
John Campton, the American portrait-painter, stood in his bare studio in Montmartre at the end of a summer afternoon contemplating a battered calendar that hung against the wall. The calendar marked July 30, 1914. Campton looked at this date with a gaze of unmixed satisfaction...
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